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Headword:
*)apeirai/h
Adler number: alpha,3130
Translated headword: Apeiraean
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] she who comes from afar, a mainland woman.
Greek Original:*)apeirai/h: h( a)/poqen parou=sa, h)peirwtikh/.
Note:
The headword seems to refer to an imaginary place: "Limitless-land" (LSJ).
Homer,
Odyssey 7.8-9: "an aged dame from Apeire, the chambermaid Eurymedousa, whom long ago the curved ships had brought from Apeire" (web address 1). The
scholia there provide the glosses here (and, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon); the second, implying another etymology, is also in
Hesychius.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 21 June 2000@01:00:01.
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